... so miles. We had camping gear and so we could pitch a tent somewhere, but with nothing to lose, we decided to start checking the motels to see if one of them didn’t have something available. Fortunately, the second place we tried did, in fact, have a room… the woman said the only reason she made it available was because of the “boy”… as in, if it had been just me, I would have been SOL. Chalk one up for Cole. I suspect it won’t be the last ...

I often catch myself thinking and wondering about the moment I'm in, that exact moment in time. Whether sitting on the gutter of a Walmart Car park, weary eyed, eating Breaky while customers frown as they drive past. Or getting tooted by cars and truckies as we pull over at every state crossing for the classic photo opportunity in front of the State sign....Jumping out of the van in our PJ's to Mum and their kids walking by with the groceries before school, that's always a good ...

Goldfield is an unincorporated community and the county seat of Esmeralda County, Nevada, United States, with a resident population of 268 at the 2010 census. It is located about 240 miles (390 km) southeast of Carson City, along U.S. Route 95. Goldfield was a boomtown in the first decade of the 20th century due to the discovery of gold — between 1903 and 1940, Goldfield's mines produced more than $86 million. Much of the town was destroyed ...

The area that would become Gold Point was first settled by ranchers and a few miners during the 1880s. The small camp of Lime Point was formed a few hundred yards west of the present town, at an outcropping of limestone. When new discoveries of gold and silver established the major mining towns of Tonopah and Goldfield, Nevada in the early 1900s, a flood of prospectors returned to Lime Point. In 1902 silver was discovered in the area, and the old camp was revived and ...